Modern English → Old English
Old English word for home
5 headwords match “home”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; ham ranks first.
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home — home, homeward
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hām genitive singular hāmes dative singular hām, hāme accusative singular hām nominative plural hāmas genitive plural hāma -
home — home turf, native country
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular ēþelturf genitive singular ēþeltyrf, ēþelturfe dative singular ēþeltyrf accusative singular ēþelturf nominative plural ēþeltyrf genitive plural ēþelturfa -
home — journey home
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular hāmfæreld genitive singular hāmfæreldes dative singular hāmfærelde accusative singular hāmfæreld nominative plural hāmfæreldu genitive plural hāmfærelda -
home — homeland, native soil; one's home, a dwelling
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular eard genitive singular earda, eardes dative singular earda, earde accusative singular eard nominative plural earda, eardas genitive plural earda -
home — residence, home, dwelling; place to stay or live
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular wunung genitive singular wununge dative singular wununge accusative singular wununge nominative plural wununga, wununge genitive plural wununga
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “home” gets the points below; the candidates are then sorted by total. The score is shown on each entry above so the order can be checked rather than trusted.
| The English word opens the headword's definition | +10 |
| It appears later in the first definition | +6 |
| It appears in any definition | +3 |
| It is in the headword's links | +2 |
| It is listed as an English descendant (etymological evidence) | +9 |
| The headword has an inflection table | +3 |
| Part of speech is a proper noun | −5 |
| Part of speech is a verb (-ian derivations are noisy) | −3 |
| The headword is an alternative form | −6 |
| The first definition is longer than three words | −2 |
A candidate has to be a real headword with its own entry: inflected forms and grammatical terminology (genitive, nominative, preterite, …) never appear here.
Not one of these?
The match may be a different sense of “home”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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